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More thoughts on Character Growth and Change

By Philip RobothamPosted on July 16, 2022July 19, 2022Posted in Blog, drama educationTagged character arcs, character change, character growth, education, radio drama, scriptwritingNo Comments

Designing Effective Character Growth and Change in Audio Drama All stories are about change. Time in stories can be linear or circular, but change is a given. Inevitably we think about change in terms of character and there are a variety of ways we deal with character change. Aristotle Aristotle argued that there were two […]

Character Arcs Made Easy

By Philip RobothamPosted on September 6, 2017April 4, 2018Posted in Blog, drama education, Writing for RadioTagged call to change, character arcs, commitment to change, demonstration of changed character, demonstration of existing character, resistance to change, scriptwriting, testing of commitmentNo Comments

Character Arcs Made Easy A SIMPLE WAY TO UNDERSTAND CHARACTER ARCS It’s been fun using this forum to think out loud about the craft of story-telling and story-telling structures. I’ve recently been thinking about character arcs as they apply in audio drama and I thought I’d share the results… Whereas the plot contains a series […]